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I recommend to install e17 only in Sid. The reason is that the official e17 packages are in the experimental repository. There are several repos for e17 but in my personal experience I prefer the official ones.

Enlightenment 17 (e17) is a powerful, but almost unknown, windows manager. It has been developed for a while and it’s has not been released yet. Nevertheless, it’s lightweight, powerful, highly customizable and with a little bit of work very beautiful. I have to say I got enlightened because of the eye candy you can get without sacrifice up too much resources. E17 can run in less than 100 Mb with animations, shadows, etc.

Fast and lightweight: Linux is really a resource saver alternative compared to commercial OS like windows. The other day, I was looking at my school’s computers stats and i could observe that Windows, with the default theme, IE and Office open, uses (wastes) more than 512 MB of RAM while Linux uses less than 200 MB (even a lot less, depending of the DE). Also, Linux is very fast – it’s used by the most fast computer ever (IBM Roads runner). Do you need another fact?

Linux is Free: I think it is the most important factor. It’s not about any technical consideration, it’s about your freedom and your right to know more about the software you’re using.

I know there are some things that must be improved but I’m sure Linux will become better each day.